An Introduction to Constructivism for Social Workers

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Constructivism is based on the principle that our personalities, behaviour and society are organized by the ways in which we attribute meanings to events and act upon these meanings. In this volume, Fisher introduces social workers to constructivism, a perspective that is becoming increasingly popular in the social sciences and that has already been embraced by clinical psychologists, communications researchers and cyberneticians. Fisher explains constructivism as an epistemology and demostrates the ethical appropriateness and practice relevance of constructivism for social work.

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David D. V. Fisher is a private consultant in career development and human relations with Educom International Inc. of Victoria, British Columbia. He has worked in a variety of settings, including with the Innuit people on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic and with different peoples in Malaysia, before taking up a teaching position at the University of Calgary in Canada. His PhD research in Social Psychology at the University of Exeter in England introduced him to constructivism. Since that time, he has conducted research and taught social work courses in human development and interviewing from a constructivist perspective. His research has focused on the role of personal identity in the generation of personal problems and marital conflict.